Is Donald Trump’s Inadvertent Anti-Semitism Worse Than the Real Thing?

[no_hypocrisy]

http://forward.com/opinion/344435/is-donald-trumps-inadvertent-anti-semitism-worse-than-the-real-thing/

He may be what I call “the inadvertent anti-Semite” — the person who, while not a hater of Jews, has internalized some of the most pernicious stereotypes about Jews.

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Trump is like a drug dealer who sells the stuff and urges others to use it, while he never touches it himself. Because he is not an anti-Semite, he fails to grasp that he is engaging in traditional anti-Semitism.

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In those few sentences, Trump hit upon almost all the memes that have characterized anti-Semitism for millennia: money, power, control, haggling and deviousness (renegotiating a deal after it is made). Modern anti-Semitism casts the Jew as someone of inordinate power with the nefarious skills to bring down governments, control financial systems and create genocidal myths about their own destruction.

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But anti-Semitism’s phantasmagoric quality does not stop it from being accepted as true by scores of people, especially when it comes from someone who does not look or act like an anti-Semite. Were a KKK leader to say such things, we would ignore them as the ravings of a known hater. But when a man of stature and a candidate for president says it, some people are inclined to think there is some truth behind it. Others, who already hold these beliefs, feel validated by the comments.

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[leftynyc]

1. No better, no worse

He's been catering to the bigots for over a year now. I'm disgusted with his son in law and his family for standing by this bullshit.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Essentially Jared Kushner chose his father-in-law over his grandparents,

who were Holocaust Survivors.

Beyond irony. It's hypocrisy.

[leftynyc]

4. I didn't know about the grandparents

but that certainly does make it even more repulsive. I would be hanging my head in shame if I were Kushner.

[merrily]

2. Sadly, we saw the real thing from some DUers, at least one of whom got banned for it, while

others are still posting.

[unblock]

5. a distinction without a difference.

it matters not one bit if trump personally likes a few jews.

if he peddles anti-semitism, he's an anti-semite, period.

imagine him (as if imagination is required) spouting off racism and then saying some of his best friends are black.